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This document provides assembly guidelines for ÖLFLEX® FD/CHAIN, UNITRONIC® FD, ETHERLINE® FD, and HITRONIC® FD cables in power chains. Key recommendations include ensuring proper bending radius, avoiding twisting during installation, and maintaining loose cable arrangements with adequate clearance. Regular inspections and adjustments are advised to ensure optimal performance and prevent damage during operation.

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T3_Assembly guidelines_int

This document provides assembly guidelines for ÖLFLEX® FD/CHAIN, UNITRONIC® FD, ETHERLINE® FD, and HITRONIC® FD cables in power chains. Key recommendations include ensuring proper bending radius, avoiding twisting during installation, and maintaining loose cable arrangements with adequate clearance. Regular inspections and adjustments are advised to ensure optimal performance and prevent damage during operation.

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T3 Technical Tables

Assembly guidelines

ÖLFLEX® FD/CHAIN, UNITRONIC® FD, ETHERLINE® FD and


HITRONIC® FD cables in power chains
1. Power chains must be selected in accordance with the relevant 18. With self-supporting chain configurations, a cable is fastened both
project documentation of the chain manufacturers. The bending to the moving point and to the fixed point. Suitable cable supports
radius must comply with the minimum bending radius of the cables. of the chain manufacturer should be used here. With high acceler-
If possible, we recommend avoiding a multi-layer cable configuration, ations, cable ties only have limited suitability. Avoid tying multiple
i. e. > 25 cores, and instead distributing the required quantity cables together. The cables must not be secured or in any way
amongst several cables. bound together in the moving part of the chain. The clearance
between the fixed point and the bending movements should be
sufficiently wide.
2. The cables must be unreeled from the ring or drum free of any
twists (at a tangent) and must be laid out straight. This work should
be carried out before starting the installation works so that the
cables can relax in this time.
Due to the manufacturing process, the markings on the cable jacket
run round in a gentle spiral. Therefore this cannot be used to ensure
that the cables have been straightened out without any twists. self-supporting sliding

19. With sliding chains, we recommend that the cable only be fastened
to the moving point. A small cable reserve should be factored in at
the fixed point.
(Note the assembly instructions of the chain manufacturer).
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10. Make sure that the cables in the bending radius run in the neutral
zone, i. e. there must be no forced guidance through the chain in
the inner or outer radius, so that the cables can still move relative
to one another and to the chain.

3. The cable temperature should not drop below +5 °C at any point


during installation.
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4. The cables also need to be installed without any twisting when


inserted into the chambers. If a cable is twisted during installation, 11. If a cable does not run smoothly, i.e. if it becomes twisted along
it can lead to premature damage to the core stranding. This effect the longitudinal axis during operation, the cable should be rotated
can be reinforced during operation and result in so-called cork- gradually at one of the fastening points until it runs smoothly again.
screwing. This leads to core breaks, which ultimately cause
malfunctions.
12. The length-changing characteristics of a cable and a chain differ
considerably from one another in terms of their absolute sizes.
5. The cables must lie loosely next to each other in the chain
In the first few hours of operation, cables undergo natural
chambers. They should be separated as much as possible using
lengthening. With chains, it takes many hours of operation for
separators. The clearance between the cables and the cross bar,
this effect to take place. This oppositional behaviour should be
the separators or the neighbouring cables should be at least 10%
addressed by regularly checking the installation position of the
of the cable diameter.
cables. We recommend carrying out the inspections regularly,
every three months, in the first year of operation – after they
should be carried out whenever a maintenance interval is due.
This involves checking that the cables in the bending radius can
move completely freely.
It may be necessary to make readjustments.
We recommend incorporating the maintenance instructions into the
inspection plan of the system.

6. T he cables should be installed symmetrically in terms of their 13. The travel distance (L) results from 2 x chain length (LS)
weight and size; those with greater diameters and weights on the
outside, those with smaller diameters and weights on the inside. L
They can also be placed in descending size order from inside to
outside. Avoid arranging the cables above one another without the LS
use of a shelf.
Radius

Moving point
7. If the chain configurations are suspended vertically, additional free
space must be provided in terms of the stay height, as the cables
Fixed point
are lengthened during operation. After a short period of operation
time, it is important to check whether the cables are still running
along the neutral zone. It may be necessary to readjust them.

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